Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction
Transport plays a crucial role in connecting people to goods and services and fostering sustainable development. The literature links improved transport infrastructure to economic growth and poverty reduction through five key mechanisms: (1) reduci...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/01/25793499/creating-pro-poor-transport-connecting-dots-transport-growth-poverty-reduction http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25003 |
| Summary: | Transport plays a crucial role in
connecting people to goods and services and fostering
sustainable development. The literature links improved
transport infrastructure to economic growth and poverty
reduction through five key mechanisms: (1) reducing
transport and production costs, (2) creating jobs, (3)
expanding productive capacity, (4) improving access to
markets and basic services like health and education, and
(5) reducing prices of final goods and services. These
benefits depend on supportive conditions in other sectors,
such as access to credit, functioning land markets, low
trade barriers, and so on. Therefore, any assessment of
potential gains from transport infrastructure and services
should also account for the interaction with complementary
markets. However, the analysis of such interactions,
assessing how and when transport infrastructure can help
reduce poverty and income inequality, is largely missing
from the literature, leaving significant knowledge gaps
across the spectrum of transportation settings. This note
highlights existing findings and some limitations in the
literature on three basic types of transport infrastructure:
large projects such as regional or national highways and
railroads; rural transport; and transport in urban areas. |
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